On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote:
> ** > On 11/30/2011 12:44 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > > Dear all, > > in the wake of Richard's announcement, here is another one. The book "A > Search for a Theory of Cognition," which I edited with Francesco Bianchini, > has just come out with Rodopi: > http://www.amazon.com/Search-Theory-Cognition-Mechanisms-Inquiry/dp/9042034270 > . > > Congratulations! > And to you as well! > > > I produced book entirely in Lyx, to Rodopi's specs. They printed it from > the pdf file. I used memoir as base class, and customized it. References > were done with biblatex (+biber), with a customized style. Customizing the > memoir and biblatex took quite a bit of effort, since Rodopi's specs were > for Microsoft Word. I ended up buyiing myself a typographer ruler and > working from an actual book in the VIBS series. > > I had to do something similar, though OUP sent me their design > specification, so I didn't actually have to measure things. I DID have to > hold up pages printed from my implementation to a light, with one printed > from their specification manual behind it, to see if they lined up > correctly. > > Boy, do I know that drill! I am lucky that it never rains in Texas, as I needed all the sunlight I could get. For a few days I had several pages of the actual book I was using as a design reference permanently taped to my kitchen's windows, so I could easily check my latex output against them. Cheers, Stefano -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA
